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Evan A. Sultanik
Personal blog · sultanik.com/blog · on HN as ESultaniksecurityprogramming
Evan A. Sultanik writes Evan Sultanik, a personal blog at sultanik.com about security and programming. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “International Journal of PoC‖GTFO”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The site hosts PoC||GTFO, a hacking and security journal distributed as PDF issues with mirrors, plus the author's CV. Commenters link it as the source of those issues.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal site of Evan A. Sultanik, Ph.D. — computer security researcher at Trail of Bits. Blog, open-source projects, publications, and presentations on program analysis, smart contract security, polyglots, and PoC||GTFO.
Most-linked posts?
- /pocorgtfo/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-19
- International Journal of PoC‖GTFO2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-29
What Hacker News says?
Maybe you are thinking of PoC||GTFO https://www.sultanik.com/pocorgtfo/
Comment linking /pocorgtfo/
on “Phrack Issue 70”Submitted Random Solutions are Often Good Enough as a story · 147 points
HN discussionhttps://www.sultanik.com/pocorgtfo/#0x00
Comment linking /pocorgtfo/
on “PoC or GTFO 15 [pdf]”Submitted Lenticrypt: A Provably Plausibly Deniable Cryptosystem as a story · 53 points
HN discussionFrom the PDF: "Bitrot will burn libraries with merciless indignity that even Pets Dot Com didn’t deserve. Please mirror don’t merely link! pocorgtfo15.pdf and our other issues far and wide, so our articles can help fight the coming flame deluge. We like the following mirrors. https://unpack.debug.su/pocorgtfo/ " https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/ https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ https://www.sultanik.com/pocorgtfo/
Comment linking /pocorgtfo/
on “PoC or GTFO 15 [pdf]”Submitted International Journal of PoC‖GTFO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe server seems to be under fairly heavy load, more download options listed here: https://archive.org/details/pocorgtfo15 (Try the torrent) Other mirrors: https://www.sultanik.com/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo15.pdf
Comment linking /pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo15.pdf
on “PoC or GTFO 15 [pdf]”Submitted Are no two snowflakes alike? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm instantly in love with the International Journal of PoC||GTFO. How did I not know about this before? It feels like the old Apple ][ hack/phreak days again. http://www.sultanik.com/pocorgtfo/
Comment linking /pocorgtfo/
on “Jailbreak firmware turns cheap digital walkie-talkie into DMR scanning receiver”Hi, I'm Evan Sultanik, author of this toy cryptosystem. (Emphasis on "toy.") My intention was never for this to be a commercial grade cryptosystem, nor was the focus ever on truly securing the ciphertext. I suggest you read the PoC||GFTO article from issue 0x04, as it goes into more detail about the motivations than my short blog post. My claims about the probability of a key existing in the public domain that decry…
Comment linking /blog/copyright-quandry
on “Lenticrypt: A Provably Plausibly Deniable Cryptosystem”https://www.sultanik.com/cv
Comment linking /cv
on “Who invented file extensions in file names?”